Philippe Clement’s £30m squad claim falls on deaf ears with £8m Rangers flops and £18m bench

Players who are hardly fit for a matchday squad, if they are available for selection, have taken the place of far too many starters. Despite Philippe Clement’s assertion, the Rangersdrab draw with Dundee clearly shows that money isn’t the problem.

Philippe Clement deflects as the £8 million Rangers pair falters once more.

Although there were problems throughout the park, two people in particular found it difficult to keep up with the tempo and level of play. Both are highly expensive, at least in terms of Rangers’ budget, and are seasoned international football players. Not exactly spare change for a team counting the pennies, as Nedim Bajrami came from Serie A for £3.5 million and Mohamed Diomande signed for £4.3 million. Before Dundee scored, Bajrami had a chance to put Rangers ahead, but he missed the mark from ten yards out.

He ought to have scored and, at the absolute least, made Trevor Carson earn it for the money he was paid. However, Diomande remained anonymous for the majority of the match until he struck the crossbar as the end of the game drew closer. Clement’s persistent pleas for poverty and analogies to Celtic are detrimental to his cause: Regarding his squad depth, Clement remarked, “It’s something that’s necessary in seasons like now with that amount of games.” We have discussions about that, and while I don’t read everything, occasionally I do hear things from others.

There was a great deal of commotion around rotation. I clarified that while it is a normal occurrence, it is not just so here.Take a look at our city rivals and how many individuals they changed over the weekend. ““We don’t have the same checkbook in that way so we need to work in that way to make this depth better with getting talents in or to get players out of our academy to make them better.” They spent £30 million on players who aren’t in the starting XI all the time, or by far not.

Rangers’ £18 million bench still wasn’t enough to defeat Dundee.

Why was it possible for Clement to use Danilo (£6), Oscar Cortes (£4.5m), and Rabbi Matondo (£3m) off the bench against a side with an even longer illness list and still lose if he didn’t have the “same chequebook”? In addition, he benched Cyriel Dessers (£4.5 million). Clement cannot accept that he has more than enough to defeat the other teams in the Scottish Premiership while yet making an excuse when playing against teams like Celtic and Lyon.

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